thaibeachlovers

There you go again with the insults, so off to the ignore list with you.

The poster you quoted overlooks that by killing so many innocents along with any Hamas fighters, the israelis are creating hatred among everyone else in Gaza. So much for creating peace by killing all Hamas, which is a nonsense in itself. Hamas will have a ready supply of recruits to fill the gaps as long as a Gazan male lives.

IMO western MSM is as complicit with israel as Biden and Sunak are. The only one I give any credence to is Al Jazeera, but it's getting hard to watch the atrocities as they become more outrageous.

Agreed. Did they think that if they murdered his 3 sons he'd just give up? Now he wants revenge for them. Any psychologist would have told them that, so one suspects they did it for that reason, to keep the conflict going. After all, there were suggestions that Hamas might have agreed to a hostage release in ongoing discussion, but I'd say those discussions will be as dead as the Dodo now. Job done.

Some farangs in LOS deserve to be bashed.

They wuz lucky they didn't do that in Singapore. Singapore canes vandals, or used to. They even caned an American boy that vandalised cars.

From what I've been reading, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones work as intended, to make boys into girls, and are probably irreversible, though why anyone would want them to be temporary is beyond me. I very much doubt that they will grow a penis in females, though they are apparently a wizz at shrinking the genitals of boys. Given that children don't normally have a clue about life, let alone sexual identity, it's an abomination that such things were being given to children, because their parents decided that they could.

Hasn't even started so what are you on about?

It's worth remembering that the end of the Roman Empire came about when they had to recruit mercenaries to guard Rome, which is basically what he is talking about. Don't enough Europeans want to join up and be treated like <deleted> in the military for pathetic wages?

Never has since Vietnam started. We were wearing British battle dress from WW2 when I joined, and the facilities were a bad joke. I just accepted it at the time as didn't know any different, but most of us were in for US clothing if we could get it. If there was anything that exemplified the farce of NZ made equipment it was wearing JG's while out in the snow ( thin cotton fabric with no insulating properties at all meant for wearing in the tropical jungle ), waterproof jacket and over trousers that didn't keep the rain out, and the infamous snail pack, which was complete garbage. Never really improved in the decade plus that I was in.

Profit made, move on to the next money making venture.

They probably don't know either, but they like the taxpayer making them rich, and high tech weapons are making them very, very rich.

That was such a great movie. Had America down to a T.

Trump did take steps to end the Afghan fiasco, while Biden could have stopped israel right at the start. Israel is only able to bomb the <deleted> out of Gaza with American help ie Biden. Ukraine war started on Biden's watch and only carried on because Biden sends them ammunition. Trump has said that ends when he is elected. So yes, Biden is the warmonger, even if without sending American boys to die.

He means an officious person that sticks their nose into other people's business.

Build a higher fence that she can't see over.

She is just wanting the OP to hire her to do the work. There is nothing in Thai law to stop anyone cleaning their own yard. I did loads of work outside the family house, including fencing, concrete work and laying a paver patio. I also did the plumbing and the electrical work. When there was a flood I was outside on the public road digging a drain while the local officials watched, and after a storm I helped clean up. Never a problem. Just don't do it in a business.

and you seem unable to stop making abusive personal comments ( and if they become too abusive there is a very simple solution in the ignore function ) Have a nice day.

That's an ironic quote from the guy you quoted, as the head of the UN also said that October 7 did not happen in a vacuum. Indeed it did not- many many years of oppression went into the planning for that. Seems that some are not willing to look at both sides. I look at both sides, on the one side I see an oppressor, and on the other I see the oppressed.

Don't include all Palestinians in that. While the world has been watching Gaza, Al Jazeera has been keeping us up to date with the atrocities going on in the West Bank. IMO israel is trying to provoke an uprising there- cue Gaza version 2. Probably why they need the US to send them so many bombs.

Not with me though. Never mind, did the organisers not understand that including israel is likely to lead to problems, given that young people are at the forefront of protests against israel, or did they go for "any publicity is good publicity"?

Couldn't have put it better myself. 🏆

Excellent and insightful post. We need more like that so keep 'em comin'.

They'll be waiting out there to make sure that Elon doesn't escape the end of humanity in a rocket ship to Mars.

Note the concept of population-centric strategies which refers to winning the hearts and minds of the civilian population. In this conflict there is a complete absence of any attempt to provide a better alternative to Hamas. In fact, everything the israelis are doing is driving Gazans more firmly into the Hamas camp, and it is for that reason that the military campaign will ultimately fail, as only by winning hearts and minds can a war succeed. In this situation, it is all big stick and no carrot. Israel obviously thinks it can defeat Hamas and suppress the population for ever after, which is nonsense. Millions of Palestinians live outside israeli control, and they will make israel suffer in revenge.